1996 Film Independent Spirit Awards – Best Director Winner
![Leaving Las Vegas Mike Figgis](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/leaving-las-vegas-mike-figgis-image.jpg)
Leaving Las Vegas
Mike Figgis
Ben Sanderson, a Hollywood screenwriter who lost everything because of his alcoholism, arrives in Las Vegas to drink himself to death. There, he meets and forms an uneasy friendship and non-interference pact with prostitute Sera..
1996 Film Independent Spirit Awards – Best Director Nominees
![Georgia Ulu Grosbard](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/georgia-ulu-grosbard-image.jpg)
Georgia
Ulu Grosbard
![Nadja Michael Almereyda](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/nadja-michael-almereyda-image.jpg)
Nadja
Michael Almereyda
![Safe Todd Haynes](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/safe-todd-haynes-image.jpg)
Safe
Todd Haynes
![The Secret of Roan Inish John Sayles](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/the-secret-of-roan-inish-john-sayles-image.jpg)